Agreed that Michael Wincott was non-essential personnel, but having his gravel voice and Eastwood grimace in the trailer got me like 30% more hyped about the movie than I already was.
― Sonned by a comedy podcast after a dairy network beef (bernard snowy), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
*long silence*
“It’s a pur-ple peo-ple eater …”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 August 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
Hahah I'd almost forgotten that moment.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 August 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
I remember thinking “is this really happening right now”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 August 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
That part was so good
― marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 August 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
i loved wincott in this, didn't feel extraneous to me at all
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 5 August 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Saw it again today, was even better the second time. Still don't think there's a particularly good reason given for them going back to the ranch with the cinematographer beyond getting the picture/movie* - Angel justifies it by suggesting maybe they will save lives/the planet in addition to getting rich and famous - but doesn't matter. There are lots of little details I missed the first time around, too, that were more evident the second time (like the way OJ often communicates with people like they're horses, with clicks or specific hand motions, or, heck, that Jupe has a rhinestone UFO embroidered into his Nudie Suit). Still not sure what to make of the cinematographer's role, exactly, except I think it's implied he's dying, and if he's going to go, he wants to go getting the proverbial impossible shot, to capture what no one else could capture (because it means death).
*It's almost a flip of the original Eddie Murphy "get out" routine. In fact, the first time I saw the movie the lady behind me even said "it's like 'The Amityville Horror' ... " when they showed the house dripping blood.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 August 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
I just wanted to point out that Em stole a fake horse to lure the creature out so they could take a picture of it without sacrificing a horse; I’m not sure that was explicitly said on the thread and flopson seemed confused why she did it.
This was great. Also I am never going outside again.
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
Oh also, I think this was said already but maybe not explicitly: the alien started avoiding both horses and after it ate the fake one, so the actual plot hole is the idea that it would chase after OJ on the back of a horse.
This didn’t bother me but it’s the bit where the movie’s internal logic didn’t mesh; everything else did if you were engaged with what the movie was doing.
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 6 August 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
OJ put two giant eyes on the back of his hood, so I figured that's what the monster was fixating on.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I kept wondering if said eyes were...always there? Like is that some sort of protective thing movie workers have on hoodies to like signal others in case of night shoots or whatever, which made me wonder if he forgot they were on there? Or did I miss a scene where he attached them?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 August 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Jeans Guy 2022
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 August 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
It has been a long time since I’ve been haunted by a movie like this
― castanuts (DJP), Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
It lingers.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
finally got around to this yesterday and loved. i'm kinda shocked at how simple it seemed to be, considering all the talk i've heard about it being hits confusion puzzle box? i went in expecting to be v confused but in the end i feel like everything fit together pretty neatly by the end. maybe if i'd seen it at home i would have missed more due to small screen + distractions, seeing it in the cinema i was pretty rapt the entire time soaking up all the details. i thought Us was a disaster so this was a nice surprise.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
*"being this confusing puzzle box", jfc phone
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Michael Wincott was playing the role Lance Henrikson would have played 20+ years ago, wasn’t he
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
I rewatched King Kong last week. Obvious of most obvious low-hanging fruit: Remember how Kong freaked out when the press photographers started photographing him with flash-powder cameras?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 18 August 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah I thought this was his most straightforward movie to date
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 18 August 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
the coin that kills Otis Sr., was that refuse from the monster or is it meant to be ambiguous, too? Either way, a coin from the sky wouldn't fall fast enough to do that kind of damage, it would have to be fired like a bullet, but that's the kind of ambiguity that truly doesn't matter.― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, August 4, 2022 3:41 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, August 4, 2022 3:41 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I do remember noticing the Jefferson side of the nickel--whatever anyone here thinks of Thomas Jefferson he's a seriously problematic figures in some parts these days.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 18 August 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
It’s pretty obvious (to me anyway) that the creature is forcefully ejecting non-digestible material, so any escape velocity issues are not on the table
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 18 August 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
I’ve never seen Jaws but this felt very similar in spirit to what I know about that story
See "Jaws"!!!!!!!!!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
xp I believe it’s meant to be from the monster—IIRC, earlier in the scene there is a news snippet on the radio that a group of hikers in the area have gone missing, i.e., eaten.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 18 August 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
that quote was from Josh, for anyone not keeping a spreadsheet
Dan come to Seattle in two weeks and see the imaxified Jaws with me
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 19 August 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
xps Yeah the King Kong parallel is so obvious that I completely missed it until my second watch of Nope. It's definitely a watershed moment for any history of cinema and "spectacle": where once we had Frankenstein's monster, misunderstood and vilified due to its lack of publicity, henceforth we will have celebrity monsters driven over the edge by intrusive media attention.
― Sonned by a comedy podcast after a dairy network beef (bernard snowy), Friday, 19 August 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
You know what "Jaws"-adjacent movie I kept thinking of both times I saw this? "Lake Placid."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 August 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
this fuckin ruled
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 28 August 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
Yep thought so too. Simple concept but so cleverly written. And shot beautifully. Probably as good as Get Out, maybe better
― Vinnie, Sunday, 28 August 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
This is on Prime Early Access, if you wanna have friends over and kick in.
$20
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 August 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
I just rewatched Grizzly Man last night and it made me think of this movie.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 29 August 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, August 28, 2022 4:08 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ciderpress, Friday, 2 September 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
i should probably check out his other movies huh
I watched it again the other day specifically to make sure I caught it one more time on a good big screen while I had the chance. Really is fantastic.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 September 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
i’m surprised nobody’s mentioned herzog in this thread? or tarantino? the former for the themes, the latter for peele’s deep affection for certain types of movies and retelling them in a way that reconfigures their iconic moments in a way that includes people you don’t normally see there. that said he’s doing his own thing - i don’t want to sound reductive - but those two antecedents really jumped out at me. antlers horst even felt deliberately herzogian with his obsessive/meditative steenbeck activity, scrubbing back and forth over scenes of natural violence
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
Well, Tipsy mentioned Grizzly Man a couple of days ago ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 September 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
ahh!!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
one thing that kinda confused me: keke palmer finally gets her oprah shot at the well, but she seems to forget about it, the plate just lying there in the collection tray as the police arrive?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
I mean, she is (understandably) more excited to see her brother isn’t dead plus it’s just a cool shot
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 2 September 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
yeah that’s true. we don’t see what she’s looking at at first.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
really want to see this again. i don’t usually feel that way about movies!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 September 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
apparently Antlers is inspired by Peele's own DP? But I definitely agree with the shades of Herzog.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 3 September 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
Imagine how cool it would have been if we didn’t get a good look at the ...thing the whole time UNTIL we saw the Oprah shot slide into the tray?
― Evan, Sunday, 4 September 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
Saw this last week and bloody loved it. Instinctively, probably my favourite of the three so far? I definitely thought of Herzog - thematically sure, but the Wincott character definitely had a reek of Herzog. And I could totally hear the Herzog voice narrating the weird animal snuff movies Wincott was watching in his lair.
The thing that's stayed with me more than anything is the Gordy stuff. It almost feels like a separate film. The violence is so shocking, so brutal as to be off-stage (literally obscene).
Something gnaws at me in Peele's representation of the family. It's always broken or dysfunctional, but there's an uncanny element to it. This is obvious with the family in Get Out, but the sitcom family are necessarily one step removed from this and the violence feels almost retributive, or a punishment for something - beyond the obvious 'meddling with nature' narrative - and different from the violence meted out by the creature. I need to think it through.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 September 2022 12:02 (one year ago) link
It was supposed to be a sitcom from 1998 but felt more like 1988
― Evan, Sunday, 4 September 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
Yeah, definitely. _Small Wonder_ vibes.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 September 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
haha yes!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 September 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
Omg Vicki
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Ned, you nailed it. I couldn’t quite define what I was reminded of.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 September 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
It seems unlikely that a show like that was exist in ‘98 but even in the last 1990s there was still a fair about of network dreck - it’s just that the dreck was more short-lived by that point.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 4 September 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link